{"id":173828,"date":"2014-06-09T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T17:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=173828"},"modified":"2017-02-01T16:57:47","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T00:57:47","slug":"minitrue-post-june-4th-multimillionaire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2014\/06\/minitrue-post-june-4th-multimillionaire\/","title":{"rendered":"Minitrue: Post-June 4th Multimillionaire"},"content":{"rendered":"
The following\u00a0censorship\u00a0instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. The name of the issuing body\u00a0<\/em>has been omitted to protect the source.<\/em><\/p>\n Take care to delete news from foreign websites\u00a0circulating domestically\u00a0related to Xiao Jianhua: “China Financier Defends Companies’ Deals<\/a>,” “With Choice at Tiananmen, Student Took Road to Riches<\/a>.”\u00a0(June 8, 2014<\/a>)<\/span><\/p>\n \u6ce8\u610f\u5220\u9664\u5883\u5916\u7f51\u7ad9\u5185\u4f20\u7684\u4e0e\u8096\u5efa\u534e\u76f8\u5173\u7684\u65b0\u95fb\uff1a\u300a\u8096\u5efa\u534e\u516c\u53f8\u56de\u5e94\u6536\u8d2d\u4e60\u8fd1\u5e73\u5bb6\u5c5e\u80a1\u6743<\/a>\u300b\uff0c\u300a\u516d\u56db\u540e\u8d77\u5bb6\u7684\u4ebf\u4e07\u5bcc\u8c6a<\/a>\u300b\u3002<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n As student and popular unrest was on the rise in Beijing\u00a0during the spring of 1989<\/a>, then-head of the Peking University’s official student union Xiao Jianhua didn’t share in the prevailing sentiment of many of his peers. While vocal student leaders<\/a>\u00a0became some of Beijing’s most wanted in the aftermath of the June 4th crackdown<\/a>, Xiao Jianhua graduated with favorable\u00a0political connections and went on to quickly become an ultra-rich financier.<\/p>\n On June 3rd, 2014, the New York Times’ David Barboza and Michael Forsythe reported\u00a0on\u00a0Xiao Jianhua<\/a> and his ties to and business deals\u00a0with\u00a0some of\u00a0China’s politically elite families\u2014including that of President Xi Jinping. The article was also published in translation<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0the Times’ Chinese-language website. A follow-up report from the Times detailing a defending statement<\/a> from a company that Xiao founded, was also translated into Chinese<\/a>.<\/p>\n CDT collects directives from a variety of sources and checks them against official Chinese media reports to confirm their implementation.<\/em><\/p>\n Since directives are sometimes communicated orally to journalists and editors, who then leak them online, the wording published here may not be exact. The date given may indicate when the directive was leaked, rather than when it was issued. CDT does its utmost to verify dates and wording, but also takes precautions to protect the source.<\/em><\/p>\n